Webmaker/HiveChattanooga/CDM

Project Summary

Creative Discovery Museum’s project will teach teens and staff 21stCentury skills in media, information technology, critical thinking and collaboration. The resulting completed app, app toolbox and digital record will serve as an app design blueprint for other organizations.

Project Timeline

Week 1: Project overview training

Week 2: Discussions with internal and external stakeholders about app ideas

Week 3: Discussions with internal and external stakeholders about app ideas Week 4: Decide on sample app or apps

Week 5: Decide on sample app or apps

Week 6: Teaching skills/identifying needs for sample app, building app

Week 7: Teaching skills/identifying needs for sample app, building app

Week 8: Teaching skills/identifying needs for sample app, building app

Week 9: Teaching skills/identifying needs for sample app, building app

Week 10: Teaching skills/identifying needs for sample app, building app

Week 11: Identification of next steps/completion of digital log

Week 12: Identification of next steps/completion of digital log

Project Partners

Spartan Systems will be a key partner in this project. Spartan Systems developer will bring a wealth of knowledge about apps design and web infrastructure. The project goals align well with Spartan Systems’ desire to be innovative and challenged. Their involvement will consist of the following:

• Provide questions and guidelines for surveying internal and external stakeholders regarding the type of app to be developed. • Set up collaboration mechanisms so that results can be universally shared. • Review survey results. • Assist with app selection. • Educate the group on the Software Development Life Cycle. • Supervise the app design phase. • Organize and monitor the app development phase. • Direct the deployment of the app to a hosting or cloud environment. • Document the process.

Metrics and Outcomes

Technical Outcomes

What innovations are you creating? Where is your pilot taking place? What do you hope to get out of the pilot? How will it advance your project technically?

Learning Outcomes

By participating in the pilot, participants will learn the following:

• Internal: Teens and staff will learn the skills and the process of developing a professional app. Additionally, teens will develop 21st Century skills through critical thinking, communication and creative collaboration. Staff and teens will also develop media and information technology skills which will translate into life and career skills for both groups.

• External: Outside organizations and youth groups similar to ours will have a digital record/tutorial as a reference.. This will aid them in further development of an app and will be the starting point for 21st Century skill development in their organizations.

We will measure these learning outcomes by X, Y, and Z, methods.

Community Outcomes

What, if any, are the impacts of this project on the broader community? What are you producing that can be shared, remixed, and/or scaled?

Visuals

Add screenshots, video, etc.

Learn More

Our project progress will be documented via weekly updates on our blog (link). You can also find us on Twitter (link). Our github repository is here (link if applicable).